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  1. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Merry Christmas to all of you 🎄
  2. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Ah, sorry, didn't show up on my phone when I clicked on the link ;)
  3. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    https://www.vogelwarte.ch/en/birds-of-switzerland/red-kite/
  4. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Son got a room with a great view near down-town Zurich. This is sunrise yesterday. It is a bit a pity that is is the USZ, and that he needed a sepsis as entry ticket. No birding for me for a bit, it seems.
  5. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    I would guess there must be some birders double checking every Stonechat they see. While unsuccessfully looking for this visitor from the far east ten days ago, I briefly chatted with Wieland Heim from the Swiss Ornithological Institute (Wieland Heim). He seemed a bit skeptical about the...
  6. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    I passed by this morning, it had been seen earlier, but I missed it. Apparently did not show up the rest of the day. About 25 birders around at different places, when I passed by.
  7. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Twitching by bike is altogether something else :D I might be able to see it this weekend, if it is still around. Where was it roughly?
  8. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Yeah, I am not such a great fan of the ornito.ch ands flore-fauna.fr sites. Less intuitive than ebird for sure, and even ebird has some room for improvement.
  9. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Dark these days when walking into work -- didn't hear anything but Blackbirds and the occasional Great Tit yesterday. This morning there seemed to be a Tawny Owl at the Kaferberg.
  10. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    That's awesome jurek! Current in France, but will order a copy when back. Thanks so much.
  11. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Richard want me to feel old.... I might need to think about getting reading glasses to see those photos!
  12. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Wow -- I would probably have a hard time distinguishing these from a Willow Warbler. Kudos for whoever realized!!
  13. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    I'll be going to Wildhaus towards the end of the week, mainly for work, but I hope to look at a couple of birds there too ;) I won't have copious amounts of time, but was wondering whether you all have any recommendations, and what birds to keep an eye out for at this time of the year.
  14. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Just saw one two hours ago near one of our ponds in France .
  15. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Even though the weather is like high summer, it seems more of the winter species are back. Apart from the various species of woodpeckers that I mentioned yesterday, today there were some Hawfinches and a Coaltit -- both species I have not seen in Zurich for most of the summer (the Coaltits had a...
  16. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Woodpeckers are back here in Zurich in the Kaferberg. Last weeks I only saw some Great Spotted, and the occasional Green. Now there are some more Green Woodpeckers, a Middle Spotted that I heard both yesterday and today as well as a the first Black Woodpeckers of the season this morning. I know...
  17. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    First foggy morning of the season here in Zurich today, much better than the relentless rain of the last couple of days. I've noticed in influx of Pied Flycatchers in the Kaferberg forest the last couple of days. I assume they are migrating, but they are actually quite loud and present. I...
  18. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    I didn't get to see any of those fancy birds, but did encounter a Turtle Dove this weekend. My first in CH!
  19. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Awesome scenery!
  20. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    There were also two Pygmy Cormorants seen at La Petite Camargue near St. Louis.
  21. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Prime skiing and hiking area -- beautiful!!
  22. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    I think so, I have seen some above the Limmat near the main station as well. I have also read somewhere (Tagi?) that they breed in the city.
  23. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Wrong institution :ROFLMAO: I am at the ETH;)
  24. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Yes indeed, I walk up though thereto get to the ETH ;) A noticed a pair of Black Woodpeckers earlier this spring, that I assumed were preparing a nest, and I have seen/heard them a couple of time since. But the rather increased foliage density makes following things a bit harder, when just...
  25. Frank van Drogen

    Switzerland 2023

    Little news here in Zurich. The one exception being that the Green Woodpeckers seem to be back. In March there were always three or four that I encountered during my commute through the forest. They disappeared when some logging was going on; I saw one fly over two or three weeks ago. Since a...
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